- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool or weapon
- Long description
- Brown sub-oval quartzite stone; deep circular hollow on both sides; likely an unfinished hammer-stone. [CC [Excav. PR] 02/12/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Ireland County Tyrone Cookstown
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Quartzite Stone, Process Flaked, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 46 mm, Width: max 58 mm, Length: max 81 mm, Weight 290 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.127.90 PR Cat other PR nos: 1117 PR Cat other PR nos: 1792
Search terms: Tool, Hammer-stone
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